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County delays union vote until November
Chatham County employees will have to wait a little longer before the county commission says whether it will recognize the union that roughly 300 of them want to join.

State health board approves deep Medicaid cuts
ATLANTA  Thousands of Georgia Medicaid recipients would be thrown off the rolls if the governor and legislature agree with budget recommendations approved reluctantly by the board that sets state health policy.

Tougher sentencing laws behind Georgia's inmate growth
ATLANTA  Before slashing Georgia's corrections budget, state lawmakers should consider that they helped create the inmate-population explosion that has the prison system bursting at the seams, key legislative leaders said Thursday.

Editorial: Win for Arnie's army
CALIFORNIA VOTERS on Tuesday did to Gov. Gray Davis what they should've done to him when they had the chance the first time, last November  reward his abysmal performance with a one-way ticket out of Sacramento.

Editorial: Making taxes simpler
WITH GEORGIA facing a $700 million to $1 billion budget shortfall, state officials scrambling to find new revenue sources are beginning to look at the Internet's ever growing, and largely untaxed, sales as a potential pot of gold.

NASCAR: Racing Newsmaker Q&A with Jamie McMurray
ATLANTA  Jamie McMurray returns to the Lowe's Motor Speedway this weekend, one year after he completed one of the most-stunning upsets in racing history by winning the UAW-GM 500 while filling in for an injured Sterling Marlin.

NASCAR: Magic number for Passmore is 17
If she manages to finish 17th or better in each of the final two races on the ARCA Re/Max Series schedule, she will become the first woman to finish among the Top 10 in a national oval-track touring series as a rookie.

NASCAR: Ryan Newman Wins Pole for UAW-GM 500
CONCORD, N.C.  Ryan Newman was a little surprised by breaking the track record Thursday night at the Lowe's Motor Speedway  not because he had the fastest stock car in speedway history but that his Alltel Dodge didn't go faster.

Prep Football Picks for Oct. 10-11
Each week the Savannah Morning News sports staff will pick the winner of area high school football games. Last week's record: 16-5 (.762); season record: 83-40-2 (.664).